SENTENCE:Few animals were observed on the route even the monkeys hurried from their path with [contortions] and grimaces which convulsed Passepartout with laughter.|Around the World in 80 Days|Jules Verne|modern
SENTENCE:But all the field afternoons and recitation Fridays and physical culture [contortions] paled before a project which Miss Stacy brought forward in November.|Anne Of Green Gables|Lucy Maud Montgomery|modern
SENTENCE:A fiendish rage animated him as he said this his face was wrinkled into [contortions] too horrible for human eyes to behold but presently he calmed himself and proceeded-.|Frankenstein|Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley|modern
SENTENCE:All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous [contortions] so that to the timid eye of the landsman, they seem as Indian jugglers, with the deadliest snakes sportively festooning their limbs.|Moby Dick; or The Whale|Herman Melville|modern
SENTENCE:When Scrooge's nephew laughed in this way holding his sides, rolling his head, and twisting his face into the most extravagant [contortions] Scrooge's niece, by marriage, laughed as heartily as he.|A Christmas Carol|Charles Dickens|modern
SENTENCE:Opium is smoked everywhere, at all times, by men and women, in the Celestial Empire and, once accustomed to it, the victims cannot dispense with it, except by suffering horrible bodily [contortions] and agonies.|Around the World in 80 Days|Jules Verne|modern
SENTENCE:Porthos drew his sword from the scabbard, and made passes at the wall, springing back from time to time, and making [contortions] like a dancer.|The Three Musketeers|Alexandre Dumas, Pere|old
SENTENCE:I had previously left the frigging to herself, and had seized her lips and enjoyed the glorious sight of the furious [contortions] of her bottom under the excessive lubricity of her wildly excited lasciviousness.|The Romance of Lust|Anonymous|old
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WORD:contraband

That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded smugglers the contraband was Jonah. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

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Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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A certain portion of his time was passed at Cambridge, where he read with undergraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European languages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom-house. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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Its principal object was to prevent the search of the colony ships, which carried on a contraband trade with the Spanish Main. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

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He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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Some part is sent annually by the Acapulco ships to Manilla some part is employed in a contraband trade, which the Spanish colonies carry on with those of other European nations and some part, no doubt, remains in the country. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith